Hull Bulkheads
Spring 2005 and I was joined by my old school friend Jonty for the seasons work. In our climate a reasonable working year is April - October though have to keep a careful eye on temperature and humidity towards the end.
The first job was to flip the two hulls and build a jig to hold them in place. This was difficult enough with the two of us but possible with the application of assorted pulley systems and levering planks. Leveling the hulls out was more difficult as because with the panels not being perfect a line across the sheer was not as horizontal as it should have been. On reflection should have marked the Datum line clearly and permanently on all panels.
The process of making and fitting bulkheads was largely straightforward. I made the panels on the table, usually using vacuum bagging rather than infusion because I found it almost twice as fast. Fortunately I had marked all the stations along the hull panels so positioning bulkheads was OK. When we came to the main cockpit/saloon bulkhead discovered that the polytunnel was too low (I did work it out when constructing the polytunnel but the boat seems to have grown !) so after much consideration we decided to sink the
